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Going insane about write protected folders
Hey,
I'm not a regular Windows users so please pardon if I missed something obvious.
I have a folder that is write protected. I have a software that needs it to not be write protected while running an update process. So it complains and asks me to remove this protection and restart.
I right-click on the folder, untick the little box and click OK, silly enough thinking this would actually work, which it didn't.
So, I dig a little deeper and find talks about having to change the ownership. So I go to the root (this is on an external drive) and set ownership to my users. I also set Everyone to have full access, just to be sure.
The ownership changes, I head back to the folder and try to remove the write protection again, but no luck.
I move the folder to the root, incase there's a top-folder that's causing the problem and repeat. No luck.
I try this little addon, but till no luck.
I'm going crazy here. How hard can it be to actually remove a bloody write protection...
Running Windows 7 x64.